Originally Posted by
hhoope01
Once in a while there are "large" program wide changes that result in major point valuation changes. For example, does anyone remember when Marriott consolidated all their various brand programs into the single Marriott Rewards program? Before that, they had a single 200K award that included 7 nights at ANY Marriott hotel in the world, 2 airline tickets to get to that hotel plus an 8 day Hertz car rental (and I do believe they threw in a long distance calling card with minutes to call home with.)
I would have to do some work to look it up, there was an award for about 400K, that included two 10 day hotel certificates and 4 airlines tickets (coach) good for travel between any two destinations, and some car rental stuff. Most airlines, they gave you a certificate, but for United (for a time) they gave you miles. If you specified you wanted to fly from LHR to SYD (largest points at that time) they gave you something like 120K points *4. I personally turned in about 4 of these over time.
You're right, of course, in that you only earned 10 points per dollar and there was no CC at first. I can't remember how I amassed so may points so long ago (other than the fact that I spent a lot of BIB), but I did buy one MVCI unit back then.
Anyway, it was a heck of a deal.
Billy